Webbing Loops

[dougs]

Hello,

I am re-doing the rig I use for climbing the mast. Bassically I use a climbing harness attached to a Petzl ascender and a pair of footloops made from nylon webbing to another ascender.

The footloops previously were just webbing looped and tied to a biner which was attached to the ascender. Intending to neaten this up I re-made the footloops and instead of knots in the webbing i sewed the webbing in a boxed x pattern (about 7/8" x 3") using v92 polyester sail thread. This seems very secure and my life does not depend on the footloops but I wonder how strong this is in relation to the strength of the nylon webbing (1" tubular from REI 15kn I think).

Thanks for any comments

[NickfromWI]

1" tubular from REI is probably around, 4,400 pounds or something like that.

I bet if you break-tested your sewing you might not be all that close to the breaking strength of the webbing, but it doesn't matter. These are just foot loops, right? They are just for convenience and nothing traumatic is going to happen if they break, right?

I sewed my footloops out of 1" FLAT webbing and they've put up with a lot of abuse.

Can we see pictures? I'll show you mine if you show me yours!

love
nick